Jerusalemite guide

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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:28:33 +0200

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Hot Potato (Closed)

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:18:53 +0200

We're dealing with baked potatoes here, and hearty as they are, there's not much that can be done with them. So the concept is simple: Order your potato, and choose from the selection of toppings (flavored butters and sour creams, Middle Eastern salads) to garnish it, for eating in or takeout.

Café Café

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:31:29 +0200

Cafe Cafe doesn't just sell food and coffee, it sells an attitude â�� a sort of lackadaisical insouciance that manifests itself both in its slogan (â��Take your timeâ�?) and its sorta lazy name (â��What? It's a cafe. You need to know more? It's a cafe cafe.

Angelica

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:03:48 +0200

Angelica Fine Grill, harmoniously combines locavore leanings, gourmet bistro fare, kashrut, well-designed interiors and two owner-chef veterans of Canela, one of the city's finest kosher restaurants: Marcus Gershkowitz and Erez Margi.

Taiku

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:02:44 +0200

Taiku surprises and pleases, though, by offering a new (if inevitable) twist to the Jerusalem sushi boom: local flavor. High-quality joints like Sakura hew as closely as possible to tradition, and others are just happy to cash in with nondescript kosher maki, but Taiku has made a genuine effort to unite the flavors and ingredients of the Middle East with vinegared rice and sake.

National Library of Israel

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:59:54 +0200

The National Library of Israel holds the world's largest collection literary collection of Hebraica and Judaica, including many one-of-a-kind and pricelessly rare antiques, as well as fascinating miscellanea like the complete personal papers of Albert Einstein.

Sushi Saki

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:01:01 +0200

Sushi-Sake, formerly Yossi Peking, brings the Jerusalem sushi explosion to Keren Kayemet Street, bearing sushi, tempura, miso, Japanese entrees and a Kosher L'Mehadrin certificate.

Black Bar 'n' Burger

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:51:48 +0200

Black Bar n Burger, burdened with a quintessentially Israel cool English name, sells itself pretty hard. It claims to offer the best burger in town. Any town. It occupies prime real estate on Shlomtzion HaMalka Street, done up in primal reds and blacks with one of those cool neon-lit bars along one wall.

Noya

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:26:02 +0200

Muscling into the small but growing club of kosher restaurants on the Shlomtzion HaMalka Street restaurant row, and the large but growing club of French-sensibility-Mediterranean-flavor gourmet eateries, comes Noya, a beautifully appointed black-and-white moderne bistro ensconced within a venerable Jerusalem stone building.

River Noodle Bar

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:24:09 +0200

A kosher Tel Aviv import, River Noodle Bar tries to address the sorry state of local Asian food all at once: kimchi, pad thai, ramen, yakisoba, those colorfully-named Chinese noodle dishes and of course, sushi.

Dome of the Rock

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:57:36 +0200

The building perhaps most often presented as a symbol of the whole of Jerusalem is as great a symbol of the centuries of religious and territorial conflict that have raged within and without the city. The glittering cupola of the Dome of the Rock dominates views of the Old City and dominates the fierce debate over its future, sitting on the spot that more than one religious tradition identifies as the center of the world, the spot from which all creation sprung.

The Jerusalem Print Workshop

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:49:07 +0200

On the border of Mea Shearim and Musrara sits a large stone building, straddling the corner of Shivtei Israel and Hanevi'im Streets. The building is home to the Jerusalem Print Workshop, a non-profit organization which aims to further the art of printmaking in Israel. The Workshop is home to a number of....

Cinematheque

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:32:41 +0200

Russian Compound

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:07:25 +0200

Jerusalem has always been a polyglot city, owing to its spiritual centrality to a huge portion of the world's population, and one of the languages any visitor to Jerusalem is bound to hear wafting from inside a shop or across a cafe is Russian. Modern Jerusalem's Russophones are mostly immigrants, the vast majority of whom arrived in the early 1990s in the wake of the Soviet Union's breakup, but it was not always so; a hundred years ago.

Reznik

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:39:35 +0200

Perhaps there is no illustration of the sharp divide between American youth and Israeli youth more poignant than the modest Reznik pub on the Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus. American college bars are low-class, single-purpose affairs, intensely redolent of that unique mixture of spray cologne, sour mix and bodily effluvia. Israeli college bars, of which Reznik is a shining example, are clean, well-designed and relaxed.

Reshimu

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:38:51 +0200

Reshimu, Jerusalem's newest performance space, which recently opened its doors to the general public, is trying extra hard to attract the neighbors in the hippie-haven of Nachalot with a number of new age, spiritualist events. It's basically hoping to become the place to be for those....

Barbur

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:32:50 +0300

It's hard to get a handle on Nachlaot. Follow the twisting alleys of the hundred-year-old neighborhood and you might wind up in one of the venerable synagogues of Jerusalem's Mizrachi community, or in the walled compound of the neighborhood colony of anti-Zionist Yiddish-speaking ultra-Orthodox Jews, or on a gleaming street of fully remodeled mini-mansions owned and occupied by wealthy Western immigrants, or in Barbur - a gallery-cum-performance devoted to fostering Jerusalem's indie artists.

Luciana

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:24:05 +0300

Kosher dining's inexorable march to sophistication continues with the debut of Luciana, an Emek Refaim "Italian House" offering kosher Italian fare along with plenty of non-Italian selections in keeping with current culinary trends in Jerusalem.

ZaZa

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:18:09 +0300

Sure, the Khan Theater may be one of Jerusalem's highest-quality dramatic venues, but it suffered from one glaring omission: it was pretty much impossible to find high-quality slabs of beef to eat without stepping outside the walls of the venerable caravanserai that houses the theater. Fortunately, with the arrival of ZaZa, that has changed.

Lavan at the Cinematheque

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:49:12 +0200

Make way for the colors. The owners of Adom (Red), a popular mid-level-price, high-quality-cuisine haunt in Jerusalem's Feingold Courtyard, have branched out in both geography and hue with Lavan (White), a bistro ensconced within the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Naturally, the curvy modernist interiors are,like Scandinavia, adult contemporary radio and car sports, posssessed of an overwhelming whiteness in hue - but the real attraction is the stunning view out the windows of the peaks and valleys of Jerusalem.